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Duda pays tribute to late presidential couple

Speaking about the late presidential couple and all the people who died in the air crash, Duda said that "they were people of merit who had done much for Poland." Przemysław Keler/KPRP

Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, paid homage on Easter Monday to the late presidential couple who had died in an air disaster near Smolensk, Russia, 13 years ago.

Smolensk disaster report critics playing Putin's game, PiS leader says

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Law and Justice, the dominant party in Poland’s governing coalition, has claimed critics of new report into the 2010 Smolensk air disaster are defending Putin.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

No access to presidential plane wreckage a problem says official

A deputy justice minister has said that lack of access to the wreckage of the aircraft involved in the Smolensk air disaster, which claimed the lives of President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in 2010, could undermine the chances of an investigation.

Poland may ask European rights court to rule on presidential plane crash

Poland may file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights about the Smolensk air disaster, which claimed the lives of the Polish president and dozens of high-ranking officials, the head of an investigative body into the incident has said.

Polish president sends condolences to Indonesia

Polish President Andrzej Duda has sent a condolence message to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo in connection with a tragic air disaster and two landslides in that country.

100 years after disappearing, remains of Zeppelin aircraft ‘laden with gold’ found at crash site in Silesia

The Zeppelin Staaken took off from Breslau on On 4 August 1919, but never arrived at its destination of Kamieniec Podolski in Ukraine. Now researchers say they have found it in a forest near Raciborz, southwest Poland.

Polish president condoles Kharkiv air crash victims

President Andrzej Duda has forwarded condolences to the victims of Friday's crash of a Ukrainian air force plane near Kharkiv in east Ukraine.

Poland hopes cause of Ukrainian plane crash will be fully explained

Poland hopes that the cause of the Ukrainian plane crash in Teheran will be fairly and reliably explained, Deputy Foreign Minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk announced on Friday.

German pilot killed in plane crash at Polish air show

A German pilot was killed as his plane lost control and plunged into the Vistula River during a stunt performance at the Płock Air Picnic in central Poland on Saturday, a spokesman for Poland's State Fire Brigade, Edward Mysera told PAP.

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Most expensive coin ever sold in Poland is auctioned for jaw-dropping PLN 3.24 million in just one minute

Considered one of the rarest royal coins in the world, the legendary 50-ducat coin of Zygmunt III Vaza minted at the Crown Mint in Bydgoszcz went for a staggering PLN 3.24 million in the lightning-fast audition at the Raffles Hotel in Warsaw.

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